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Public Financial Management and Internal Control
This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management. Management reform is an essential precondition to the successful implementation of many new techniques. Only when a managerial capacity exis…
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- 978-3-031-35065-8
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No precedent, no plan: Inside Russia's 1998 default
The definitive insider's account of Russia's painful transition to a market economy, as told by the IMF's senior man in Moscow at the time.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262289429
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- 1 online resource (xx, 331 pages) :illustrations
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The Empire of Value: A New Foundation for Economics
Translation of the author's L'empire de la valeur."With the advent of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. Andr?e Orl?ean challenges the neoclassica…
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- 9780262323901
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- 1 online resource (x, 350 pages) :illustrations
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The Economics of Risk and Time
This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of expected utility theory in the 1940s, but most utility functions used in financial management are still relatively simplistic and assume a mean-variance world. Taking into account recent advances in the economics of risk and un…
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- 9780262274043
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- 1 online resource (xx, 445 pages) :illustrations
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Banking the World: Empirical Foundations of Financial Inclusion
About 2.5 billion adults, just over half the world's adult population, lack bank accounts. If we are to realize the goal of extending banking and other financial services to this vast "unbanked" population, we need to consider not only such product innovations as microfinance and mobile banking but also issues of data accuracy, impact assessment, risk mitigation, technology adaptation, financia…
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- 0262305992
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- 1 online resource (vi, 511 pages)
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In the Wake of the Crisis: Leading Economists Reassess Economic Policy
Conference proceedings.In 2011, the International Monetary Fund invited prominent economists and economic policy makers to consider the brave new world of the post-crisis global economy. The result is a book that captures the state of macroeconomic thinking at a transformational moment. The crisis and the weak recovery that has followed raise fundamental questions concerning macroeconomics and …
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- 9780262301831
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- 1 online resource (x, 239 pages) :illustrations
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Emerging Capital Markets in Turmoil: Bad Luck or Bad Policy?
Analysis of financial crises in emerging market economies, including Mexico, Argentina, and Russia; traces the evolution of crisis theory and challenges the conventional wisdom.Since the mid-1990s, emerging market economies have been hit by dramatic highs and lows: lifted by large capital inflows, then plunged into chaos by constrained credit and out-of-control exchange rates. The conventional …
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- 9780262269728
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 547 pages) :illustrations
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An Engine, Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets
This pioneering work in the social studies of finance describes how the emergence of modern finance theory has affected financial markets in fundamental ways. Paraphrasing Milton Friedman, the author says that economic models are an engine of inquiry rather than a camera to reproduce empirical facts.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262278805
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- 1 online resource (x, 377 pages) :illustrations.
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Exchange Rates under the East Asian Dollar Standard: Living with Conflicted V…
Essays by prominent scholars and policymakers honor one of the most influential macroeconomists of the last thirty years discussing the themes behind his work.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262279550
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- 1 online resource (xix, 491 pages) :illustrations
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When things don't fall apart :global financial governance and developmental f…
An account of the significant though gradual, uneven, disconnected, ad hoc, and pragmatic innovations in global financial governance and developmental finance induced by the global financial crisis. In When Things Don't Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the global financial crisis had little effect on global financial governance and developmental finance. Most observers…
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- 9780262344043
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- 1 online resource (xxi, 372 pages)
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